BIOLOGIST

Paul Henri Lecomte

1856 - 1934

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Paul Henri Lecomte (8 January 1856, in Saint-Nabord, Vosges – 12 June 1934, in Paris) was a French botanist. In 1884, after attaining a number of degrees, Lecomte became a professor at Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris. In addition to his teaching duties, he worked in the botany laboratory of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (French National Museum of Natural History) under Philippe van Tieghem. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Henri Lecomte has received more than 12,126 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Henri Lecomte is the 828th most popular biologist (down from 819th in 2019), the 4,682nd most popular biography from France (down from 4,420th in 2019) and the 120th most popular French Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 828 out of 1,097Before him are Charles Wallace Richmond, Alice Catherine Evans, William Hemsley, Johann Jakob Bernhardi, John Jacob Abel, and Joseph Rock. After him are Wilhelm Gerhard Walpers, Herbert Giles, Max Fürbringer, Sydney Parkinson, Eduard von Martens, and Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1856, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 109Before him are Nigâr Hanım, Leon Benois, Orville Gibson, Louis-Gustave Binger, Jens Christian Christensen, and Helene von Druskowitz. After him are Vernon Lee, Belisario Porras Barahona, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Anton Aškerc, Friedrich Kluge, and Manuel Allendesalazar y Muñoz de Salazar. Among people deceased in 1934, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 140Before him are Jiro Sato, Toros Toramanian, Horace Lamb, Majit Gafuri, Sergey Lebedev, and Frank J. Sprague. After him are Broncia Koller-Pinell, Heinz Prüfer, José Santos Chocano, Claudio Williman, William H. Welch, and Ferenc Móra.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 4,682 out of 6,770Before him are Joan, Lady of Wales (1191), Cédric Bakambu (1991), Christine Goitschel (1944), Marie Noël (1883), Joseph Olivier (1874), and Jean-Dominique Senard (1953). After him are Sabri Lamouchi (1971), Vernon Lee (1856), Charles Mayer (1882), Michel Rousseau (1936), Osman Kavala (1957), and Éric Dupond-Moretti (1961).

Among BIOLOGISTS In France

Among biologists born in France, Paul Henri Lecomte ranks 120Before him are Jacques Miller (1931), Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799), Étienne Pierre Ventenat (1757), Nicaise Auguste Desvaux (1784), Gaston Bonnier (1853), and Jules Pierre Rambur (1801). After him are Palisot de Beauvois (1752), Édouard Ménétries (1802), Pierre Chambon (1931), Charles Frédéric Girard (1822), Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (1808), and Elizabeth F. Neufeld (1928).